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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






2. Individual Educational Plan






3. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






4. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






5. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






6. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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7. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






8. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






9. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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10. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






11. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






12. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






13. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






14. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






15. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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16. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






17. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






18. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






19. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






20. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






21. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






22. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






23. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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24. English as a second language






25. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






26. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






27. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






28. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






29. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






30. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






31. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






32. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






33. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






34. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






35. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






36. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






37. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






38. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






39. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






40. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






41. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






42. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






43. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






44. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






45. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






46. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






47. Wide Range Achievement Test






48. Ability to understand and express spoken language






49. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






50. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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